MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Spiritual fitness. It’s one of the four pillars that comprise Comprehensive Airman Fitness. It enables airmen to maintain the resilience needed to accomplish the mission in the face of any challenge. Within the Air Force, there are personnel specifically tasked with ...

MINOT AIR FORCE BASE – Minot Air Force Base contributed $621.6 million to the local economy in fiscal year 2023. That was a $26.6 million increase from fiscal year 2022 when the base’s economic impact was $595 million. Maj. Andrew Triplett, commander of the base’s 5th Comptroller ...

The Peace and Honor Quilts of Valor Minot program has made and presented 176 quilts to veterans in the Minot area since it was established in February 2020, according to Lynn Heald, chair of the program. On Friday, Jan. 19, Frank Senn, of the Disabled American Veterans, Chapter 4, of Minot, ...

Gordon Thoreson, longtime resident of Voltaire, was honored with the Quilt of Valor award on Wednesday in a ceremony at Somerset Court in Minot. Also present were his wife, Carol Kay, and daughters Dana Thoreson and Angela Heilman. Thoreson was drafted into the U.S. Army on Dec. 15, 1966, at ...

The local Vietnam Veterans Committee is seeking Gold Star family members in Minot and the surrounding area. According to the committee, which is comprised of members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and American Legion, it would like to invite the Gold Star family ...